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A note for OP: the creation lake first page is an intro page that starts with "praise for creation lake" and lists a lot of author endorsements. You need to fix that

A game with all the elements, architecture and gameplay of cyberpunk could be made that would run on a PS3, it just wouldn't look anywhere near the same

All my notebooks are either dirt notebooks or ones I won't write in because I don't want to ruin them

Still, it occurred to me that it might be fun to take the netbook completely apart and start replacing its hardware piece by piece.

Is it just me or did it end on a cliffhanger? That's the last line!

Exactly. Indie development is where it's at. The best game I played in the last five years was probably A Short Hike. It moved me and inspired me to get back into game dev and it was made by one person

Yes, but you don't have to use Windows 11. You can install win10, 8 or XP, or Linux freely on your PC, you can't do that on a PlayStation and even if you could, the games would stop working

Okay PS3 might have been pushing it. But the PS4 is just fine

I don't think you really understood my point then, maybe I didn't make it clearly.

What I meant was we abandon perfectly good console hardware, not because it's outdated or obsolete, not because games demand the cutting edge, but because profit margins demand the consumer spend 500+ on new hardware every 5 years or whatever. It's nothing to do with the software and everything to do with shareholders.

The PC is the exact opposite of this.

There are no PC games that force you to buy a whole new device. There are games that your 5 year old PC might struggle with, but they're still compatible.

The top games on steam are mostly things that would run on 15 year old gaming rigs.

Backwards compatibility! I can still play games from decades ago on my current PC. On a console you're in luck if the game you played on the last generation is rereleased on the next one

You're not locked into a store, a network, or even an operating system.

It's true the AAA devs don't optimize much but my point is that Microsoft don't decide that you have to buy a new PC every five years and there are a bunch of new games coming out for it that are literally unavailable on your old one.

(Well ok technically they do exactly this but it's called an Xbox and it's a failure right now)

For a moment I thought Gen AI meant the current generation of kids. It's a fitting moniker

I take your point that they rely on local conditions, but those conditions are certainly not as restrictive as for hydro.

Some adults then lose that living room to their offspring and have to go back to playing in the bedroom.

I speak from experience

The difference is that there is no one steward. You don't need steam, there are lots of other ways to get your games. GoG, Itch.io, Windows Store, or just the developers webpage.

On PlayStation, switch, or Xbox you have only one gatekeeper, and they do not respect you

But back then you had to have a PC and experience with it to install drivers, install games, mess with configs etc.

The draw of consoles was the ease of use. N64 problem solving was just off/on

That's unfortunate and infuriating I'm sure

Part of what I've always hated about consoles is the inevitable push toward an entirely new generation of hardware when the current hardware is more than capable.

The best games I've played in the last year would run on a PS4 and probably even a PS3 with a little optimization, yet we're already at the "end" of the PS5. It's so disingenuous. We should be squeezing everything we can out of the wonderful hardware we have today instead of chucking it for the new shiny thing, but instead we're force fed a new box, with a new exclusive title, with graphics you can barely distinguish from what we already have and more restrictions on what you can do.

Madame Web anyone

I read recently that PlayStation users are moving to PC en masse, and also Xbox has been gutted by layoffs, and there's a backlash against Nintendo for the switch 2 pricing.

Is the age of the console finally coming to an end?

This article is literally about geothermal and all people can talk about is nuclear, solar. Why aren't we building geothermal energy plants everywhere?

Did it confidently predict the same finalists consistently in every iteration? Or did it sometimes give different answers?

I just want to point out I think the project is still cool, if maybe inefficient. I love the idea of a clock that can do what a smart watch can do.

but building this vs buying 50 VMs from exe.dev for $20/mo doesn't add up for me.

Assuming they never raise their prices (which they almost certainly will), you'll pay $240 per year for this. For that price you could pick up a second hand Mac mini today, though not bleeding edge I guess.

Beat project, but

I also tried with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2, but 512 MB of RAM were too little to run a modern browser,

You don't need a browser to display graphics. And you don't need to be a programming whiz either. I'm sure Claude could write some python to render these clock faces.

Came here to post this. I use handy on my own machine and it's perfect with parakeet. If I switch to whisper it makes lots of mistakes

It may come down to "showing your work". The post talks about how they investigated the two suspect submissions by asking them for evidence of their process, but none was forthcoming.

It may just start to become the norm for publishers to do this for all submissions, like checking references for a prospective employee.

I have very little physical evidence of any book I've ever worked on, but I'm sure I could find heaps of digital versions and notes. I hope this would be good enough although obviously it could be falsified by someone determined enough I guess (note to self, start writing notes by hand)

If we ever reach a point where we have that equivalence in media it'll be a sad day - when you can buy a ticket to a cheap but perfectly good movie written and directed by AI or you can pay a premium for something written by a human.

When the human written books cost more.

Just a few from the executive branch:

Insider trading - Using knowledge of impending policy decisions and military operations to massively profit from the stock market.

Further than this, one could argue that those policy decisions were made, or at least timed, in order to deliberately short stocks in order to reap profit. The timing of a lot of the Iran war announcements followed very suspect patterns.

Using the highest office in the land to promote personal businesses.

Awarding military contracts to companies linked with family members of the administration over other more suitable options.

We'll likely never see any accountability for the literal billions being illicitly gained by the current administration after they've left office.

Can you imagine a venue refusing entry to former clients 2% of the time just because they’ve “improved their experience”?

Actually this happens a lot more than you'd think. Every time renovations are done without consideration for wheelchair users, it's basically an improved experience that denies a percentage of people access

Death sentence is excessive. But many people here will be comparing it to the USA where the current punishment for corruption is nothing. Literally nothing. You just get away with it in plain sight

We don't need death sentence, we just need, like, any regular sentence

Epicbacon? Is that some new slang or a typo

Michael Maynard's tweet reads like Trump stuff. iD are obviously monumentally important in game history but I disagree with his points that the Doom, doom eternal and doom dark ages are the best fps games ever made. Doom was revolutionary, but are we really going to say the other two are up there? I don't think they'd even be in my top twenty.

I get that he's angry and hurt and defending his colleagues but telling me doom dark ages is better than half-life 2 is just picking a fight